Now Why’d They Do That?

As a minister, he said, he deals constantly with edicts and regulations framed at the European level—rules that he doesn’t want and can’t change. These were rules that no one in Britain asked for, rules promulgated by officials whose names Brits don’t know, people whom they never elected and cannot remove from office. Yet they become the law of the land.

The minimum size (with tolerances and exceptions) is a length of 14 cm and a thickness (grade) of 2.7 cm…

Only Extra class bananas have to comply fully with the shape specifications. Class II bananas, for instance are permitted to have “defects of shape”; Class I bananas are permitted only “slight defects of shape…

When a bureaucrat decides to decide what curve your bananas should have, well, that’s not that far from them deciding to decide the proper length of your schlong or the fun in your funbags.

Of course they don’t like “peasants”, they prefer the more proper term, “serfs”.
Our social, moral, political and intellectual betters pine for the days of thatched roofs, serfs knowing their place, everybody organically farming and droit de seigneur.
It was a simpler time.

Well…the scotish first minister has stamped her foot and said that the Scots have to grant “consent” for something like the Brexit…
Londoners want to secede … It’s just a jolly old cluster frak…
I’m really liking the funny and endy stuff there so much more than here at home… I’m thinking being an expat has its upside…